Day 3: Old-time Harvest

Fourth of July in southwest Kansas is pretty normal for a small town: kids shooting off fireworks until 3 am, bloody hot afternoons with sprinklers and the local pool, an ice cream social… we also took advantage of an old-time harvest being conducted a few miles out of town. 

We shot in and out of a wheat field for more than an hour. Again, as I’m learning that one only gets bits of useable footage with hours of tape (we are not shooting digital).

But, Matt excitedly ran around, perching and up and down, left and right, every which way to follow one particular combine from the 1930s. He got some beautiful imagery of the wheat, which is quickly turning into my favorite color against the blue sky.

The sky, for that matter, was the star of the day: perfectly blue and littered just right with big puffy cumulus clouds.